Prev-Stat

The service previous called PREV-STAT has been improved to County Epidemiological Data. This service uses GIS software and data from a variety of sources to create county profiles, including maps and tables. Currently 2019 data are available to search on various variables.

Training Portal: Registration

As of October 2017, the evaluation activities previously performed and housed at the IPRC, along with the evaluation team members, have moved to a different unit within the School of Public Health-Bloomington named the Institute for Research on Addictive Behaviors (IRAB).
IRAB has been configured to be the SPH-B’s core analytic unit that conducts evaluation and investigative research, while the IPRC will continue to provide quality translational research services, such as technical assistance, workforce development, and communications.

Technical Assistance Resources

CORKBOARD Login

Corkboard is Indiana’s electronic system used to collect evaluation and individual programmatic data including but not limited to the National outcome Measures (NOMS), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) classification, demographic information on populations served, and other items as designated by the Division of Mental Health and Addiction. This system was developed by Indiana University and requires an authorized login for access.

SPF Indiana

• The Strategic Prevention Framework (SPF) is a systematic, community based process to support the effectiveness of prevention efforts.

Reference Services

IPRC Home Library of e-Resources

Search the IPRC Home Library Database for electronic resources. For Indiana residents: borrow a DVD or VHS from our loan library.

Featured Article: National Inhalants and Poison Awareness Week

March 16-22: National Inhalants and Poison Awareness Week, 2014

For a dozen years now, the third week of March has been named National Inhalants and Poison Awareness Week. Known also as NIPAW, this event highlights the need for inhalant abuse prevention and ways to avoid accidental poisonings. ...

Community Risk Factors: Availability of Drugs

Introduction to Community Risk Factors

Children form their opinions of human nature and the world based on their experiences and observations. For children the family is the most important institutional influence upon their socialization. (Allison and Lerner, 1993) The norms of the child’s domain are critical. Children growing up in a home where parents abuse drugs (Biederman, et al. 2001), in a school where non-drug use policies are not clearly communicated and firmly enforced (CSAP 2004:7), in a community where drug use is tolerated or encouraged (Hogan, et al 2004:43) are at higher risk of becoming involved in substance use. Parenting practices are key to reducing and preventing problem behaviors in youth. (Bigan and Cody 2004:131) An important part of the family and parenting picture is parent role modeling. Parents involved in community service, parents who vote, parents who participate in their child’s life -- do make a difference. Not only do they model what it means to be a parent and an adult, they also communicate norms of behavior through example. This modeling, together with parental monitoring of children’s behaviors and the establishment of high expectations, creates a powerful influence. (Perkins 2004:9) By confronting misperceptions about norms, the social norms approach to prevention strengthens cultures by correcting misunderstandings about the beliefs and values of its members. Several of CSAP’s six prevention strategies aim to change norms and/or to correct misperceptions about them.

Section 6 explores variables found to be associated with elevated risk for alcohol, tobacco, and other drug problems. This analysis of risk factors is based on the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP)’s list of archival indicators as described in “Building a Successful Prevention Program” published on the Western Center for the Application of Prevention Technology (CAPT) web site. CSAP outlines four major categories of risk indicators: community, family, school and individual/peer. A full listing of archival indicators can be found in the Appendix. The Indiana Prevention Resource Center (IPRC) is aggressively pursuing the collection of data for all the archival indicators and offers here additional indicators beyond those suggested by CSAP. This section discusses those CSAP archival indicators for which Indiana data is available and adds several additional related indicators. This report presents data for the following archival indicators:

The Indiana Prevention Resource Center is funded, in part, by a contract with the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration, Division of Mental Health and Addiction, financially supported through HHS/Substance Abuse Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, Substance Abuse Prevention and Treatment Block Grant. The IPRC is operated by the Indiana University Department of Applied Health Science at Indiana University, Bloomington School of Public Health. It is affiliated with the School's Institute for Research on Addictive Behavior.